"And so here I am again feeling like an old-school liberal at odds with the new politics of the far left, because it wasn't so long ago when liberals thought shooting people who don't share your politics was bad! Or at least a microaggression."
Real Time with Bill Maher: Eat the Rich
With most of the webcomic field having succumbed to terminal snowflake navel-gazing over the past decade, older material has been looking better and better by comparison. Well, maybe not in image quality. Indefensible Positions was apparently created on a drawing tablet from the very start, a technology which in 2005 had not suffered much public testing. It shows. At least at first. It did improve, if not to modern glossy, shaded, curve-smoothed, consistently proportioned, colorful standards. Don't worry, the story's much better.
A youth ditches his plans for college, meets (sort of-) Lee and Grant the avatars of Chaos and Order and learns the true meaning of deviance. Until it deviates. That was the normal-sounding part. The rest involves witches, teleporting zombies, pigfuckery, mosquitos, a traffic light, political commentary on post-9/11 curtailment of personal freedom, and a veritable chorus-line of tulpas.
Its strongest part as a work of fiction would have to be the unique characters, each with wildly different origin stories, personalities, motivations, ethics, powers and fates. But it rose past freak-show appeal (and has retained lasting relevance) by returning repeatedly to the conflicts between freedom and destruction, continuity and suffocating control, personal meaning and personal sacrifice, common ground and mass psychosis, and most importantly the extent to which anyone may make able, informed, responsible and driven in choices impacting self, others or society as a whole. It landed at a strange time in retrospect, shortly before libertarianism devolved to a moral umbrella for simpleminded greed, or liberalism a crutch for narcissistic power games in the name of make-work minorities.
As urban fantasy yarns go, sadly underappreciated and just as relevant now as twenty years ago, albeit for different reasons.
RE "mass psychosis"
ReplyDeleteThe official framing of the mass formation (or mass psychosis) "phenomenon" is misleading and wrong in terms of what the whole true reality is. The false hope-addicted psychologists and their acolytes want you to believe this is "just some temporary occasional" madness by the masses when it is but a spike of a CHRONIC madness going on for aeons with "civilized" people: https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html
One of these mainstream psychologists who have been spreading this whitewashed reality, Dr. Desmet, also failed/fails to see that the PLANNED Covid Psyop is a TOTALLY deliberate ploy because he doesn't think (after more than 1 year, 2 years, even 3 years, into this total PLANNED scam!) it's ALL intentionally sinister as he stated in a prior podcast (this makes him witting or unwitting controlled opposition).
In the May of 2022 podcast with James Corbett he stated that "some people tend to overestimate the degree of planning and intentions" (behind the COUNTLESS, VERIFIABLE, FULLY INTENTIONAL, FULLY PLANNED atrocities by the ruling tribe of psychopaths over the last century alone) and see all of it as being PLANNED which Desmet called "an extreme position" ... Sound logical thinking is "extreme" and therefore false and sick in his demented delusional view!
This all means Desmet is ALSO a member of the masses of lunatics, an ACTIVE CARD-CARRYING MEMBER of mass formation!
And nearly ALL of the "alternative media" too has been mindlessly spreading Desmet's fake and misdirecting narrative endlessly...
"My experiences with "alternative media" have been, for the most part, just as dreadful as with the mainstream media. Most are unprincipled scavengers, shills and prostitutes, willing, and even eager, to sell out for ego-gratification and/or financial gain." --- Barbara Hartwell, CIA Whistleblower
If you have been injected with Covid jabs/bioweapons and are concerned, then verify what batch number you were injected with at https://howbadismybatch.com
"We'll know our Disinformation Program is complete when everything the American public [and global public] believes is false." ---William Casey, a former CIA director=a leading psychopathic criminal of the genocidal US regime
“Repeating what others say and think is not being awake. Humans have been sold many lies...God, Jesus, Democracy, Money, Education, etc. If you haven't explored your beliefs about life, then you are not awake.” --- E.J. Doyle, songwriter
"There are large numbers of scientists, doctors, and presstitutes who will sell out truth for money, such as those who describe people dropping dead on a daily basis as “rare” when it it happening all over the vaccinated world." --- Paul Craig Roberts, Ph.D., American economist & former US regime official, in 2024